Eighth Grade resources for teachers. Contains videos, worksheets, websites, and activities for students.

This video explains how swallowed air becomes a burp and sometimes a smelly fart.  It also describes why those two bodily functions can smell.

This is the original version of The Lorax and it is a great video to demonstrate the relationship and effects of supply and demand in...

If you are teaching a unit on the skin or the epidermis, your students might be interested in viewing how tattoos stay permanent in your skin.  ...

TEDEd created this video, which is an animation about how a cell is attacked by a virus.  It is very detailed and uses language that is easy to...

Students will draw and diagram the different phases of the moon depending on how the Earth, Sun, and Moon are positioned relative to one another...

I have actually been to the Arenal Volcano.  It is a beautiful site.  The volcano erupted sending down a pyroclastic cloud killing several...

This video shows the moment when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986. This event would ground the U.S. space shuttle program for almost...

In this Study Jam video, students will learn about the water cycle.  The vocabulary used in the video is precipitation, evaporation, condensation...

This video shows one of President Eisenhower’s campaign commercials.

Do your students wonder why we get old?  This quick video will demonstrate the process and genetics behind aging.

This Educational Technology Tutorial demonstrates how teachers can use LightShot or any other screen capture software to quickly and easily add...

This is an excellent video, by MinuteEarth, to show your Earth Science...

This is a short biography video of President George Washington. Learn about the life of the first President of the United States.

Here is a quick 8-minute video that talks about 3 man-made disasters that were all preventable.  The three disasters talked about are, Chernobyl...

This video explains the beginning of the United States involvement in the Vietnam Conflict including President Lyndon B. Johnson's role.

This is a great clip to demonstrate and open a discussion about conflict: man vs. society as shown through the movie "Rudy."

I use this digital geoboard with my 3rd grade students when teaching shapes.  I have students do their best to create, 2d shapes like triangles,...

Experience an authentic space shuttle launch with this video, and make sure to play it loud with a high-quality sound system so that your students...

This is a great video to explore the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. (World War 2, WW2, World War II) It has personal accounts from Walter Cronkite...

In this Earth Science lab, students will crush a soda can using atmospheric pressure. This is a common science experiment with a twist. In this...

Why do feet smell?  Why do some feet have strange food odors?  This video does a good job of explaining how bacteria on your body produce those...

Generate equivalent expressions using two additive properties. This video focuses on using the associative and commutative properties of addition...

This is a clip of Robert F. Kennedy announcing the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) as Kennedy is also running for President in 1968.

In this science lab, students will gain a pretty good understanding of what mass, volume, and density are. They will digitally change the volume...